Re: Performative verbs (was: Re: here is some stuff i want all of ya'll to look at)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> If we treat all Swedish and German nouns with impredictible plurals
> as irregular, we're looking at very significant percentages of the
> dictionaries.
In the case of German, almost all nouns are irregular.  The regular
ending (that is, the one applied when there is no lexical information)
is -s, but that is very rare.  In Dutch, OTOH, most nouns are regular,
taking either -s or -en (predictable by rule).

> Something I find nifty is the existence of pairs like _mask_, pl
> _masker_, "masque", and _mask_, pl _maskar_, "worm", or _slav_, pl
> _slavar_, "slave", and _slav_, pl _slaver_, "Slav".
The first must be a coincidence, but "slave" and "Slav" are after all
doublets.

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